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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Schell, as the unfortunate Gervaise, gives a virtuoso performance, pulling out every emotional stop, but with a restraint that makes her suffering convincing. Her tears and her simpers are no doubt the best of their kind in the motion picture business, but whereas her recent Hollywood directors (who know a good thing when they see one) have restricted Miss Schell's efforts almost exclusively to these two talents, M. Clement allows his star a fuller range of expression--with much more satisfactory results...
...while Clement introduces his humor with admirable subtlety, he plays his horror with brutal directness. Such scenes as the washing-house fight between Gervaise and her rival (where Miss Schell tears an earring out through Miss Delair's bleeding earlobe) and the bedroom where M. Perier has vomited the results of an all-day drinking spree--photographed in careful detail--are moments the viewer would like to, but cannot, forget...
Marvin J. Markman and Joann A. Grant, leaders of the USFC, strongly denied Miss Perry's complaints yesterday, claiming they were due to "pique." Markman insisted that allegations of Communist influence over the USFC were false, adding, "Miss Perry is the source of these rumors...
...Miss Grant also denied Miss Perry's charges concerning the IPC, labelling them as a "red herring." Markman added, "In my recent visit to the IPC in Vienna I found the discussions democratically conducted, with no Communist control...
Markman and Miss Grant are in Cambridge for discussions with the Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Festival. Miss Gloria Steinem, director of the Service, reported yesterday, "the USFC leaders came here to ask us for support. We refused to give any support, because we do not want to affiliate ourselves with any organization...